I am looking to learn how to make my own decals for a few specialized police vehicle models I am doing. Part of that includes the Police dept. Logo on the doors of the car and the swat vehicle.
Only need to make enough for a couple of units, so going to someone and paying a large setup fee is out of the question.
I need to know if anyone has any experience with the Sure Thing Decal maker software?? Good / Bad / indifferent?
Also could you make a few suggestions as to what you are using.
Are you going to make inkjet decals with your own printer? In this case you do not need dedicated decal making software. Any photo editing or paint program is good enough. There are even shareware or free ones available, such as GIMP. All you need is to get the design as a jpeg or similar graphics file, and print with your printer.
If you are designing for screen printing, then you need something fancier, but Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, or Paint Shop Pro can make color seperation layers.
it can be done that way but ,all the decal and scren printing people use vector based programs , like illustrator,corel and inkscape (free)
so if you want to get into designing decals (and possibly masks), it only makes sense to stay away from raster programs like Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, or Paint Shop Pro and Gimp. and learn to use vector based drawing software.